Cases connected with the troubles in Northern Ireland have been tried by a judge sitting without a jury in `Diplock Courts'. Given the symbolic importance of the jury within the common law tradition, this study offers the first systematic comparison of the process of trial by judge alone with that of trial by jury. The authors determine the impact of the replacement of jury trial with trial by a professional judge on the adversarial character of the criminal trial process.
| ISBN: | 9780198258896 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 1995 |
| Author: | John Professor of Public Law, Professor of Public Law, Queens University of Belfast Jackson, Sean Lecturer, Faculty Doran |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 344 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice |
| Genres: |
European history Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law Methods, theory and philosophy of law Human rights, civil rights |